Robb Kendrick, Tintype Cowboy, Rides Again - New York Time

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You Bet Your Tintype, Buckaroo



“The tendency of cowboys is to think of photographers as very demanding, high-maintenance people,” Mr. Kendrick said. “And in the end I think they really respect the fact that I have to work for these pictures. They respect any kind of honest hard work.”
Mr. Kendrick belongs to a growing group of commercial and art photographers — including gallery stars like Sally Mann and Chuck Close — who have retreated in recent years from the ease and exactitude of the digital age and taken up the difficult, ethereal techniques of early photography, including the ambrotype (in which a unique image is created on a glass plate), daguerreotype (on polished silver) and tintype (usually on tin-plated iron ).
The latest result of Mr. Kendrick’s twin obsessions — with tintypes and the bow-legged anachronisms who continue to make their living on horseback — is “Still: Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-First Century,” a new collection of 148 tintype portraits published by the University of Texas Press.

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An excerpt from this article was in the Dallas Morning News today.